What more is there to say?
"Heightened tensions keep city bomb squad on the alert" by Maria Cramer, Globe Staff | June 21, 2010
The call came in on a weekday morning: There was a suspicious-looking box outside the World Trade Center in South Boston. Within minutes, the city and State Police bomb squads, with dogs, had shut down buildings and closed off nearby streets.
Two hours later, they found there was no cause for alarm. Inside the box was a company’s promotional materials.
Since the failed car bomb attempt in New York’s Times Square on May 1, police around New England have responded to numerous high-profile bomb scares — from the tense nine-hour shutdown of several Portsmouth, N.H., streets as authorities searched a passenger bus, to, more recently, an investigation of a small suitcase on the sidewalk outside Trinity Place in Boston. All turned out to be false.
Oh, the SAME as all the "terror" BS?
Related: Times Square
Breaking News: Al Qaeda Bus Bomber Found in New Hampshire
PFFFFFFFFTT!!
The heightened tension has put a new focus on the Boston Police Department’s bomb squad....
Yeah, I FELT like I was being MANIPULATED by the MSM!
Every call about an abandoned knapsack or cooler must receive the full attention of the 15-member squad....
As if you had TAX DOLLARS to WASTE!
The squad trains twice a month, once with the FBI, with various scenarios meant to sharpen their responses....
So WHEN does the OPERATION go LIVE like on 9/11, FBI?
Related: FBI Frame-Ups Past and Present
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Police say the job is tougher not just because of the ever-evolving technology and training, but because it has become easier for people to build an improvised explosive devices by finding instructions online.
“The Internet, in all its wondrous powers, has not helped us necessarily, and YouTube is even worse,’’ said State Police Sergeant William Qualls, who has served on that agency’s bomb squad for 12 years.
This self-serving s*** gets sickening after a while.
Qualls said his unit responds to reports of IEDs, such as pipe bombs, every 10 days.
In 1998, the unit disarmed a remote controlled bomb left in a busy area in New Bedford, Qualls said. The bomber was never caught.
But most of the devices are made by pranksters eager to watch something blow up....
Sept. 11, 2001, changed everything.
And CUI BONO, reader$?
With federal money pouring into major city departments for antiterrorism initiatives, the department suddenly had access to equipment that was never available before.
In 2007, Boston police were approved for about $800,000 in federal grants for new equipment, including five bomb suits, the truck — which cost more than $356,000— two $185,000 robots, and a $56,000 X-ray machine....
All spent over a damnable set of lies.
It is a huge expense, but worth it, said Allan Roscoe, professor of terrorism and counterterrorism at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell....
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